Our pal Mary Wilson from the station talked to a group called the Latino Lines Coalition, which says it will sue if the rejection of this year's redistricting plan means that district lines from 2001 will stay in place for 2012.

The group, based in Philadelphia, says more districts should be majority Latino. And the maps lawmakers approved (and the high court shot down) included four majority-Latino seats. One was in Allentown, local readers will recall.

Angel Ortiz, the group's spokesman, tells Wilson that those seats are now at risk.

More after the gap.

If the 2001 lines stand, the number of majority-Latino seats would drop back down to the current total of one. And that would send Ortiz's group to court.

“And I do not think that would be acceptable and upheld in the federal [court]. I think that would be rejected,” he said.

Ortiz said the state could also push up the date of the April 24 primary to give mapmakers more time to work on a plan acceptable to the court.

“The date of the primary is not etched in stone. I think primaries can be held in May or June,” Ortiz told Wilson. “As long as they’re held before the general election in November, that’s all that’s needed.”

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